PRST/19/1 Statement by the President

GE.12-13231

Human Rights Council Nineteenth session

Agenda item 2 Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner

for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the

High Commissioner and the Secretary-General

Statement by the President*

PRST 19/1

At the 53rd meeting, held on 22 March 2012, the President of the Human Rights Council read out the following statement:

“The Human Rights Council,

Bearing in mind President’s statement 18/2 of 20 September 2011,

1. Welcomes the decision by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights that the launch of the annual report of the Office of the High Commissioner will be accompanied, annually, by meetings with the participation of States Members of the United Nations and other stakeholders to provide information on, inter alia, the issues identified in the fourth paragraph of President’s statement 18/2;

2. Also welcomes the assurance of the High Commissioner to take into account the comments made during the meetings, and that the said comments will be compiled by the Office of the High Commissioner and made publicly available.”

[Adopted without a vote.]

* The present statement will appear in the report of the Human Rights Council on its nineteenth session

(A/HRC/19/2), chap. I.